HAILS!

Shane Melton will be joining OSRAA as an Award Set-up Coordinator on December 1, 2016.  Shane comes to OSRAA from the UABC, and will work with Proposal and Award Management Team C.   Shane has been at OSU for more than 5 years, and worked in Business Affairs before moving to the UABC.   Welcome Shane!

 

FAREWELLS/ eRA UPDATE

The electronic Research Administration (eRA) project is undergoing some changes. When complete, the eRA system will provide essential back-office electronic data management, compliance office and committee support and management for COI, IACUC, and IRB/HRPP.  We are doing an internal and external review of the project to ensure that we are able to deliver a good product that is useful both to the research community and within the Research Office.  On a related note, the eRA project manager, Vern Wrobleski, is pursuing a consulting opportunity off-campus and will no longer be part of the eRA team. We wish him good success.  In the interim, Stephen Hotard has been appointed project manager for the eRA – thanks, Stephen!

 

NEW OSU START-UP! AGILITY ROBOTICS

Start-up company Agility Robotics, Inc. has exclusively licensed OSU technology patents.  Agility Robotic’s legged locomotion expertise is built on a history of academic research in mechanical design, including the bipedal walking and running robots. Agility Robotics is leveraging this work to create products that address the real world needs of rugged, efficient, and highly capable mobility platforms.  Company founders are Jonathan Hurst, Mikhail Jones, Damion Shelton.

 

HAPPY NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY TO….

Jane Cigarran- Nov 8

Rebecca Henry- Nov. 23

Autumn Helenihi- Nov. 30

 

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